Lets See Your Sponges

[Bongo Shrimp]

Just wanted a place to see all the wierd sponges out there.


Here's my collection so far:
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/_DSC0369.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/_DSC0368.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/SANY0031.jpg

http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/DSC_0022.jpg

This is the mother that I got the purple one from:
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/SANY0024_marked.jpg


Come on- lets see 'em!

[aninjaatemyshoe]

Sorry, no pics to post. How long have you had your sponges? Where did you get them from?

[AFL]

Great shots and great sponges!

Nothing weird or terribly cool- but I like this shot with a tiny little window into the inside of one of my sponges-

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_NzNMCRdavzk/SrKswYCxMsI/AAAAAAAAAb0/8A4bUKsANqs/s800/spng.jpg

[Bongo Shrimp]

I've had most of them from between 1 to 3 months with no degeneration except a little on the purple one. I got them all from my LFSs. Oh and by the way, nice orange sponge. It looks like my light blue one with those holes (except the color of course).

Here's a pic of a sponge that I will be getting a frag of on sunday, and I may get a frag of aussie spider sponge at a local swap coming up.

Metallic Navy Blue Sponge:
(NOT MY PIC)
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/73.jpg


KEEP THE PICS COMING!

[aninjaatemyshoe]

That's an amazing sponge! Hope it does well in your tank. Are you feeding your tank phyto?

[salmonshutters]

I really like the little blue sponge, I just got a frag of aussie spider sponge, does anyone know special care for it, I'm not finding much online.

[Reefer-Rick]

Well thanks to Derek at DEREK`S REEF SHOP I now have my Blue Sponge in my tank 2 little pieces were broke off but they are set as frags now just getting into sponges I like the shapes and colours http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w310/kingflush/Picture023.jpg
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w310/kingflush/Picture025.jpg

[Bongo Shrimp]

That's a nice BIG blue sponge! Mine is well on its way to that size.


Here's my latest edition:
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/SANY0064.jpg

[Reefer-Rick]

Thats a cool little sponge what kind is it

[Bongo Shrimp]

It is impossible to know exactly what it is without dissolving some of its tissue in acid in a lab and then examining the reaction. All I know is that it came from Jakarta.

[philter4]

I don't have a photo of my last sponge, I change my tanks around way too often (as I catch new animals, or something incompatable, my new love is sponge eating angels) but here it is before I collected it.
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd31/philter4/P4150424.jpg
it was off the coast of West Palm Beach, below 80 ft on a finger of reef, it was collected as I swam down the reef toward the sand which was just over 100 ft. It is here, at the edge of the reef where the pygmy angels and atlantic longnose butterfly live, along with pearly jawfish in the summer, so that is where I love to dive.

[Bongo Shrimp]

I wish so bad that I could collect my own livestock. Living in Metro Detroit doesn't help.

[Reefer-Rick]

I wish there was a place here in Nova Scotia Canada that I could pick up some sponges as there are very few times that any sponge makes it to a LFS as I would like too have a few more of different colours and shapes for my 30g nano reef tank

[blasto_master]

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=772&pictureid=4392

[blasto_master]

Here is how my sponge used to look before I fragged it and sold most of the frags for reef supplies.http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=772&pictureid=4551

[LeslieH]

Hi Bongo -- you might want to do some research on that metallic blue sponge before getting one. Another thread (not linkable, sorry) had several posts saying that it was fast growing, hard to eradicate, grows over & kills corals, & takes over entire tanks.

[Bongo Shrimp]

I already got it and it grow like crazy, I love it! It is in my seahorse tank and has plenty of room to grow. Plus I can sell really small pieces for a fortune where I live.

[oldreefer76]

That's a nice BIG blue sponge! Mine is well on its way to that size.


Here's my latest edition:
http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/SXM50/SANY0064.jpg

We just picked up a nice size sponge of the same, there is little if any info on them any place and they have just started arriving here in the states, in fact they may have recently just been discovered and may actually be more photosynthetic than a filter feeder according to some marine biology people we know

[Bongo Shrimp]

Yeah, I'm being led to believe through numerous sources that it is actually a type of macro algae. First of all it is green and fleshy inside. Second of all my turbo snail made a dinner out of it. And third of all, the more light it gets, the faster it grows.

[aninjaatemyshoe]

Do you have any other pictures of it?

[oldreefer76]

Yeah, I'm being led to believe through numerous sources that it is actually a type of macro algae. First of all it is green and fleshy inside. Second of all my turbo snail made a dinner out of it. And third of all, the more light it gets, the faster it grows.
It is actually being classified currently as a Plaktoris which may or may not be correct I have some one doing research on it further

[Bongo Shrimp]

I will get some more pics soon, it has grown a ton since the last pic.

And I've never heard of Planktoris, what exactly is it? Algae? Sponge? (don't think so) Plankton?

[oldreefer76]

Plaktoris my bad

[caad3]

Any updates on how the sponges are doing? I haven't had much success with caring for them, they usually go south on me in a few months.

[Bongo Shrimp]

Well, I went out of town for two weeks on dec 19th and I found out the hard way that the person who took care of my tank, didn't really know how to care for the sponges. The big red tree sponge and the paddle sponge had so much death that I had to trim them way back. The Paddle sponge now looks like a crescent moon and I just had to chop the finger sponge at the stem. I'm going to keep both and see if I can get them to recover but in the mean time will be purchasing new ones to replace them and get the look of my tank back to what it used to be. Instead of a plain finger sponge however, I plan to get an aussi tree sponge with parazoanthus on it.

[justreefing]

here is a pic of my favorite sponge,